There are some minor differences, mostly due to the fact that the applescript api lacks clickback support I believe.
Chris On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:58 AM, ravedog <[email protected]> wrote: > YOu know you can just write a mail rule using applescript and growl - > it would do exactly the same thing as the plug in. > > On Jul 7, 12:16 am, Dylan Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just my 2 cents. I also more or less only use growl because of > growl-mail. Sure it's nice to get other notifications, but without > growl-mail, I'd rather not have one more app running even if it is a very > minor resource user. i.e. Growl Mail is the only thing that KEEPS me using > Growl. Other things are nice but I can live without. > > > > What kind of work goes into maintaining growl-mail? I'd be willing to > donate my time to keeping it up to date, but I am not the greatest coder in > the world (though I learn quickly). Every time a new OS update comes out, I > install it day 1, and I've always just manually added the new bundle-id to > the old version of GrowlMail's .plist and it has always worked for me on > both 32 and 64-bit intel machines, so (at least so far) no major changes > have been *necessary* that I've seen. If it's just adding the new IDs and > (possibly many) minor internal changes (and rebuilds), I can do that no > problem (I have access to a 64-bit intel MBP that I always keep up-to-date, > a 32-bit intel MBP that I can either keep up-to-date or lag a version if > needed, and PPC machines on Tiger as well, so I can test on a fairly wide > spectrum of hardware and software). > > > > Can you give us more info on what the changes it typically requires are? > If I think I can handle it, I'll take full responsibility for getting things > done promptly and keeping it alive for as long as I can. (In all likelihood, > I'll just be building my own versions from source if it dies anyway, so I > may as well help the project out instead of being selfish about it). > > > > I am less interested in handling Growl-Safari, as I personally do not use > it much and given what you just said, it sounds beyond my ability. Though as > long as it isn't a major headache, I can handle minor changes to it (that > is, I am willing to keep it alive for as long as my skill allows me to, if > people are interested). > > > > Dylan > > > > On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Peter Hosey wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jul 7, 2011, at 00:00:09, ravedog wrote: > > >> What is the logic behind killing GrowlMail and Growl Safari other than > they are plugins for Apple apps. DO you have to kill them to gain entrance > into the store? > > > > > Growl could get into the store regardless of whether we kill GrowlMail > and GrowlSafari. > > > > > GrowlMail has been a terrible support burden, as much work to maintain > as all of our other products combined. GrowlSafari is fragile internally, so > while it hasn't caused us many headaches *yet*, it's only a matter of time. > > > > > So, we're killing both of them. This will free up the time we'll need > to make all the necessary changes to Growl and leave us plenty of time in > the future to maintain all of our surviving products. > > > > >> Also, will it still be fully AppleScriptable and have the same > dictionary? > > > > > That's the plan. > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Growl Discuss" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
